Nursing Resources for Research

AHFS is published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists—long recognized as an authority on educating patients about drug use and safety, and a founding member of the National Council on Patient Information and Education (NCPIE)

AHFS has been a Top Ten Award Winner in the Department of Health and Human Services National Consumer Education Materials Contest.

Available in a Spanish version translated by experienced human health and medical translators (not by computer programs)

Updated monthly

Conforms to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Keystone Guidelines for the provision of “useful” prescription medicine information to consumers and the FDA's Guidance for Useful Written Consumer Medication Information

Includes “How To” monographs for administering different types of medications such as eye drops and inhalers

Identifies medications that have the potential for adverse events when used by elderly patients as recommended by a panel of nationally recognized experts (Beers Criteria). These criteria identify medications that should generally be avoided or that should be used with caution in older adults (65 years of age or older)

With clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,400 topics, DynaMed provides the latest content and resources with validity, relevance and convenience, making DynaMed an indispensable resource for answering most clinical questions at the point of care.

DynaMed editors monitor the content of over 500 medical journals on a daily basis. Each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate, representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of Systematic Literature Surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed.

Journals@Ovid is an aggregated online database of all Ovid journals. It is a fully searchable index of science, technology and medical journals from over 50 publishers. You can also access the full text of 87 Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins nursing journals. Abstracts are available for all other journals.

Use “Search for Full Text” links to find out if Woodward Library has full-text available for a specific article.

*MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand.

*MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free. You can use MedlinePlus to learn about the latest treatments, look up information on a drug or supplement, find out the meanings of words, or view medical videos or illustrations.

*You can also get links to the latest medical research on your topic or find out about clinical trials on a disease or condition.

Gale InfoTrac Power Packs are subsets of periodicals found in the Academic OneFile and General OneFile Databases. Each subject specific PowerPack Collection has the content needed by a unique category of researcher. This collection also contains some unique content not available within the databases listed above.

Note: When APSU is selected as your institution in account settings, search for full-text links are provided underneath search results for articles.

Initially, Trip stood for Turning Research Into Practice. Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.

Trip has been online since 1997 and in that time has developed into the internet’s premier source of evidence-based content.

As well as research evidence, Trip also allow clinicians to search across other content types including images, videos, patient information leaflets, educational courses and news.

*This is the realization of Sigma Theta Tau International’s goal to offer nurses, in all roles around the globe, online access to reliable nursing information
*Through the library’s complimentary Registry of Nursing Research database, individuals have access to search study abstracts and conference abstracts